Season Six of Only Murders in the Building Is a Cozy British Village Mystery!!!!
I say, inspector... good show!
Well, well, well! Remember how, last year, we learned that Only Murders in the Building will be filming season six in London, and we said we can’t wait to find out more about what this means for the narrative?
Well, TODAY is that day! Today, we acquire knowledge!
We now know that season six of Only Murders in the Building is a cozy British village mystery!!
According to Deadline, the season will be borrowing from/emulating classic British mystery stories.
And here’s who is going to guest-star! Olivia Colman, David Tennant, Peter Capaldi, Jodie Whittaker (all of whom played The Doctor in Doctor Who), Spice Girl, Jennifer Saunders and Jane Horrocks (of Ab Fab), Nicola Coughlan, Richard Ayoade, Jamie Demetriou, Martin Freeman, Jim Broadbent, Derek Jacobi, Lesley Nicol, Amar Chadha-Patel, Adrian Lukis, Simone Ashley and Ginger Spice AKA Geri Halliwell. In other words… a lot of England.
Season 6 will premiere on December 8th on Hulu/Disney+. For an in-depth look at this next season, featuring Season 5 spoilers, go here
Olivia Rutigliano
Olivia Rutigliano is an Editor at Lit Hub and CrimeReads. Her other work appears in Vanity Fair, Vulture, Lapham's Quarterly, AirMail, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, The Baffler, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Politics/Letters, The Toast, Truly Adventurous, and elsewhere. She has a PhD from the departments of English/comparative literature and theatre at Columbia University, where she was the Marion E. Ponsford fellow. She hosts the podcasst "Culture Schlock" at Lit Hub Radio. She is on instagram at @oldebean, twitter at @oldrutigliano, and bluesky at @oliviarutigliano.bsky.social.
